Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
2 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
3 | He 's a class traitor , and if he ever comes round to this house he 's fucking dead . ’ |
4 | ‘ The citizenship law we have now harks back to another era , ’ one CDU official said . |
5 | Unless it was somebody we have already used , and that really boils down to one person in York , and she 's shown no signs of applying , so . |
6 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
7 | He readily owns up to this refusal to be tied down . |
8 | Sandra takes the compliment gracefully , then moves back to those magazine fantasies . |
9 | In year two this actually drops down to twelve point six percent and in year three down to nine five percent . |